I don’t know why inanimate objects treated like this makes me feel sad. It reminds me of the Mars rover comic where he’s left asking if he did a good job after the radio goes silent.
Here’s this again. I get to bring it out every time this sort of thing comes up. It never ceases to be a masterpiece.
I feel really bad about my old MacBook. It was my trusty companion for 10 years, but now it’s kind of forgotten and useless.
I tried to revive it a while ago, but it’s too slow/hot to be useful for anything worthwhile and it’s a real shame. It’s still working fine, otherwise!
Reminds me of
If you actually want to find a file on a long abandoned laptop, it may be easier to pull the drive and use an external enclosure to read it with a current system. If you have the hardware. No need for any of the other hardware, rtc, nvram, let alone the os to work.
Make one drive mount read only in a guaranteed working and current system instead of powering on hundreds of old components along with long dead software, batteries, authentication long forgotten… Not to mention where that supposed charger has gone and will it work or die after years of being abandoned.
Absolutely.
Why would you need to charge it all the way up? Just plug in the PSU, switch it on, look for your file, turn it off.
the cord wasnt even connected in the first panel so i assume we are dealing with an evil cursed laptop, which can be difficult, in my experience
The inimitable Daniel Rutter presents: Your Computer Is Not Alive.
This column was written in 2002. Human nature being what it is, it is still relevant.